Nexcess Knowledge Base

Learn how to configure your Magento store to use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, which allows your site to exchange encrypted information with web users.

Follow our simple OpenSSL CSR generation process to secure your website with an SSL certificate.

How Nexcess Cloud clients can generate a CSR for use when applying for SSL certificates.

Nexcess customers on non-cloud infrastructure can learn how to buy wildcard SSL certificate in this article. Nexcess Cloud customers can see our reference to another related article.

Why you may ignore the SSL warning within SiteWorx when using a dedicated server.

SSL certificates are digital certificates that authenticate your website’s identity and allow for secure transmission of sensitive information.

A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a block of encrypted text created on the server that will use an SSL certificate. A Certificate Authority (CA) will use the CSR to create your SSL certificate.

Learn how to purchase standard SSL certificates through the Nexcess website, though this is not the preferred method for existing Nexcess clients.

Standing for server name indication, SNI is an TLS protocol extension that allows a server to connect multiple SSL certificates a single IP address.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) servers can use SiteWorx to generate and view a CSR — also known as a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).